Okay. Thank you, everyone. Good afternoon. Welcome to everyone here as well as our audience online. For those online, welcome to the eighth csis Strategic Forum on korea. Am my name is victor cha, Senior Vice President for asia and korea chair at csis, a professor at georgetown. And it is indeed my distinct privilege to introduce our keynote speaker, senator chris van hollen. Senator vann. Hollen was elected to the u. S. Senate representing the great state of maryland in november 2016. He previously served in the house of representatives representing marylands eighth congressional district. He truly serves as chairman of the Senate Foreign relations subcommittee on east asia, the pacific, and International Cybersecurity policy. Senator van hollen has been a tireless advocate of a strong u. S. Korea alliance initial on theni korea caucus. Innocent he is cosponsored important legislation condemning north korean human rights abuses and imposing sanctions and banking restrictions on north
Then we would understand the burden we p put on the backs of small businesses. A couple things you would see in my bill not our plan is immediate expensing that accelerates the path of more Resources Available immediately for small businesses. The secondo say thing you would do is cut taxes. We did that in 2017. 2017. In 2017 that was one01 of the three wee believe this at the point and you can watch it in full cspan. Org. We take you live now to a forum looking at the use Korea Alliance. It is being hosted by the center for strategic and International Studies you will hear from secretary of state Antony Blinken and maryland senator chris van hollen. You are watching live coverage on cspan2. The cree Foundation Fred kempe is here dash that weve had this conference and its always been for me to highlight and is always been very important probably never as important as it is this year when you think that everything that is going on. Weve got, well, we dont really know whats going on in c
Then we would understand the burden we p put on the backs of small businesses. A couple things you would see in my bill not our plan is immediate expensing that accelerates the path of more Resources Available immediately for small businesses. The secondo say thing you would do is cut taxes. We did that in 2017. 2017. In 2017 that was one01 of the three wee believe this at the point and you can watch it in full cspan. Org. We take you live now to a forum looking at the use Korea Alliance. It is being hosted by the center for strategic and International Studies you will hear from secretary of state Antony Blinken and maryland senator chris van hollen. You are watching live coverage on cspan2. The cree Foundation Fred kempe is here dash that weve had this conference and its always been for me to highlight and is always been very important probably never as important as it is this year when you think that everything that is going on. Weve got, well, we dont really know whats going on in c
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The hearing will come to order. Let me welcome you to the Senate Foreign relations subcommittee on asia and Pacific International cybersecurity in the 115th congress on behalf of the committee i apologize for the delay of the beginning of the hearing to the witnesses have been here time away from work and those attending the hearing today. The return of senator mccain was a very poignant moment for the senate. Its the most Urgent National security challenge in the United States and allies in east asia. The secretary said north korea is the most urgent and dangerous threat to peace and security. The former commander of the u. S. Northern command stated Korean Peninsula is that its unstable point since 1953 when the armistice was signed. North korea conducted Nuclear Tests in a 24 ballistic launch. This year pyongyang has already launched seven Team Including a successful test of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile is capable of reaching alaska and hawaii. The policy of decades of bipa